reflections on the historical situation that has given birth to the New Atheism, especially 9/11 and the War on Terror. —JH One reason why a dialogue between faith and atheism is so hard is that they are not really the same kind of thing. Things that are the opposites of each other—say, capitalism and socialism, or militarism and pacifism—can argue with each other easily enough. They have enough in common precisely as opposites to make this possible. But this only seems to be true in the case of